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The reference is to Celan's most famous work, "Todesfuge" ("Death Fugue"), a poem which grows more harrowing with each reading, particularly the iconic lines "death is a master from Germany his eyes are blue / he strikes you with leaden bullets his aim is true." Hamburger's translation begins:
Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundownThough this is among Celan's more accessible works, most of the poems in Hamburger's volume will reward, and stun, the attentive reader.
we drink it at noon and in the morning we drink it at night
we drink and we drink it
we dig a grave in the breezes there lies one unconfined...
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